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It twinkled more than any other star known, and it was smaller than most astronomers had ever suspected, and the world of astronomy wondered what they were. The twinkling was in 1.4-s intervals, the size of the star between 10 and 30 km, as compared with a “normal” star like the sun, whose diameter is about 1,400,000 km. Astronomers worldwide were in a frenzy.
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Gold, T. (2012). The Pulsar Era. In: Mitton, S. (eds) Taking the Back off the Watch. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27588-3_8
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